yétúndé ọlágbajú
yétúndé ọlágbajú is a research-based artist, creative producer, and cultural strategist living on Ohlone and Tataviam lands (Bay Area & Los Angeles, CA). Their work roots in a single question: What must we reckon with as we build a future, together? With no set answers or expectations, ọlágbajú unravels intricate connections as a means of highlighting our interdependence. They are interested in how our familial, platonic, romantic, and ecological bonds are affected by what we confront in the reckoning.
Through their social practice they have co-founded and are a member of numerous artist and worker-led collectives, each with liberatory missions and values. An advocate for non-hierarchical working structures, they embrace shared leadership models that challenge white supremacy, by actively rejecting power hoarding and paternalism — two of its guiding tenets.
They hold an MFA from Mills College and are the recipient of multiple awards including a Foundation for Contemporary Arts award and a Headlands Center for the Arts fellowship. They recently became an advisor for the San Francisco Arts Commission’s, Shaping Legacy’s Artist Circle [San Francisco, CA] and participated in Life on Earth: Art and Ecofeminism at The Brick [Los Angeles, CA].